"There have been a handful of players with hyphenated first names, which are either nicknames (such as Jo-Jo White) or transliterated names into English"

Or this guy
http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/griffjo01.shtml

Sort of weird that there haven't been any hyphenated surnames in baseball, since they seem to be not all that uncommon in other sports (Abdul-Jabbar, Abdur-Raheem, Abdul-Rauf, Douglas-Roberts, Jones-Drew, etc.)

Are there any muslims in MLB? Perhaps it might be difficult to be Mr. September/October while observing Ramadan? In the NBA, that occurs during pre-season, mostly, where it's just practice, man, we're talking about practice; we're not talking about the games.

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